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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1939
Page
2
Crimes on the gambling crackdown include eight at tables with about $4.85 in play and seized cards. Offenders mostly used fictitious names. fines and promises of settlement were issued. Brewer and Sarin pleaded guilty to operating a gambling house and faced $500 bail. Police pledge continued raids and investigations into other games citywide.
Wellington Capper of Sigon died this morning at 7:30 at Corry Hospital after two weeks illness from pneumonia. Born August 11, 1853 in Van Wert Otto he lived in Elgin twenty years. Survived by widow two sons J Capper Lewistown Mont two daughters Mrs John Harris Indianapolis Ind and Miss Mary Mae Capper at home six grandchildren three great grandchildren. Body at Davison funeral home then Elgin church funeral services at 2:30 with interment in Elgin cemetery.
Baltimore on March 11 Mary Cummings the widow of Joseph J. Cummings who was murdered leaped 18 feet from a third floor cell tier to a concrete floor in the city jail.
Local column reports University of Pittsburgh students not planning protest over Dr. Jock Sutherland’s resignation. Notes include a broken wrist from a Warren sidewalk accident, a Lebanon Valley College president guest sermon, club meetings, a public address system upgrade, and upcoming events at Maccabee Hall and churches. Also mentions a theft at a Post Office garage, highway relocation plans, and local sales notices.
Babson urges changes to security and tax policy criticizing current government spending. He links high taxes to social programs and warns that ongoing security costs threaten individual wages. He promotes moral character and spiritual security over government insurance, citing Father Feeley on liberty and security, and asks readers to choose liberty over forced security.
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